Burgundy Farm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact remains that the Burgundy teachers should be embarrassed about their behavior. Everyone else is going back to work. Why can’t they?

Except that’s not the facts. Burgundy teachers have been working all summer. They are working right now. They are 100% not at fault here and stating otherwise is speaking from an uninformed perspective. Be mad at administration if you need an outlet but the teachers are absolutely not to blame.

To clarify, most teachers in the area are going back to work in the DL context. Why do people continue to talk about this like teachers aren’t working?

For K-8 Teaching cannot be done effectively online. “Going back to work In the DL context” is not going back to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact remains that the Burgundy teachers should be embarrassed about their behavior. Everyone else is going back to work. Why can’t they?

Except that’s not the facts. Burgundy teachers have been working all summer. They are working right now. They are 100% not at fault here and stating otherwise is speaking from an uninformed perspective. Be mad at administration if you need an outlet but the teachers are absolutely not to blame.

To clarify, most teachers in the area are going back to work in the DL context. Why do people continue to talk about this like teachers aren’t working?

For K-8 Teaching cannot be done effectively online. “Going back to work In the DL context” is not going back to work.

I don’t think in-person learning would/will look anything like we think it would either.

Teachers want to be in the classroom. If they didn’t, they would make much more money by quitting and tutoring online (pandemic or no pandemic). Teachers understand that NEITHER model is ideal but only one protects at risk people and makes sense right now.

I believe teachers are making a good faith effort to reopen. Given the way their planning for the fall was stymied, they have really great ideas about a slow re-opening that ensures kids’ learning as well as social-emotional needs are protected as much as possible. Talk to the teachers and you will hear this message loud and clear.

I know this has been said but it bears repeating - DL is not a result of teachers being lazy. It’s a result of a global pandemic. Also, kids are capable of so much more than we give them credit for. Just like the first few weeks of school are a time of tremendous transition and routine learning, the first few weeks of DL have to be that too. Give our kids the space to grow into this model and ask teachers how you can best support your kids at home. It doesn’t/shouldn’t look like kids at a desk for hours. Teachers don’t want that either, especially at Burgundy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact remains that the Burgundy teachers should be embarrassed about their behavior. Everyone else is going back to work. Why can’t they?

Except that’s not the facts. Burgundy teachers have been working all summer. They are working right now. They are 100% not at fault here and stating otherwise is speaking from an uninformed perspective. Be mad at administration if you need an outlet but the teachers are absolutely not to blame.

To clarify, most teachers in the area are going back to work in the DL context. Why do people continue to talk about this like teachers aren’t working?

For K-8 Teaching cannot be done effectively online. “Going back to work In the DL context” is not going back to work.

I don’t think in-person learning would/will look anything like we think it would either.

Teachers want to be in the classroom. If they didn’t, they would make much more money by quitting and tutoring online (pandemic or no pandemic). Teachers understand that NEITHER model is ideal but only one protects at risk people and makes sense right now.

I believe teachers are making a good faith effort to reopen. Given the way their planning for the fall was stymied, they have really great ideas about a slow re-opening that ensures kids’ learning as well as social-emotional needs are protected as much as possible. Talk to the teachers and you will hear this message loud and clear.

I know this has been said but it bears repeating - DL is not a result of teachers being lazy. It’s a result of a global pandemic. Also, kids are capable of so much more than we give them credit for. Just like the first few weeks of school are a time of tremendous transition and routine learning, the first few weeks of DL have to be that too. Give our kids the space to grow into this model and ask teachers how you can best support your kids at home. It doesn’t/shouldn’t look like kids at a desk for hours. Teachers don’t want that either, especially at Burgundy.

Respectfully... this sounds nice and rosy, but is obviously coming from someone who didn't try to manage DL with a young child in the spring while also working full-time. My young child lost interest in Zoom pretty quickly in the spring, despite the awesome teachers. As an educator, you know very well that DL is not appropriate for 5, 6 and 7 year olds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact remains that the Burgundy teachers should be embarrassed about their behavior. Everyone else is going back to work. Why can’t they?

Except that’s not the facts. Burgundy teachers have been working all summer. They are working right now. They are 100% not at fault here and stating otherwise is speaking from an uninformed perspective. Be mad at administration if you need an outlet but the teachers are absolutely not to blame.

To clarify, most teachers in the area are going back to work in the DL context. Why do people continue to talk about this like teachers aren’t working?

For K-8 Teaching cannot be done effectively online. “Going back to work In the DL context” is not going back to work.

I don’t think in-person learning would/will look anything like we think it would either.

Teachers want to be in the classroom. If they didn’t, they would make much more money by quitting and tutoring online (pandemic or no pandemic). Teachers understand that NEITHER model is ideal but only one protects at risk people and makes sense right now.

I believe teachers are making a good faith effort to reopen. Given the way their planning for the fall was stymied, they have really great ideas about a slow re-opening that ensures kids’ learning as well as social-emotional needs are protected as much as possible. Talk to the teachers and you will hear this message loud and clear.

I know this has been said but it bears repeating - DL is not a result of teachers being lazy. It’s a result of a global pandemic. Also, kids are capable of so much more than we give them credit for. Just like the first few weeks of school are a time of tremendous transition and routine learning, the first few weeks of DL have to be that too. Give our kids the space to grow into this model and ask teachers how you can best support your kids at home. It doesn’t/shouldn’t look like kids at a desk for hours. Teachers don’t want that either, especially at Burgundy.

Why on earth is Burgundy requiring kids to log into online Zoom PE classes? More mandatory screen time from a school that claims it wants kids outside!! Let us send our kids outside to exercise rather than sit in front of screen.

[Anonymous]

Burgundy’s mandatory GRADED online specials is the stupidest thing they have Come up with yet. Will they kick us out if my kid just skips art, drama and PE? What a joke!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Burgundy’s mandatory GRADED online specials is the stupidest thing they have Come up with yet. Will they kick us out if my kid just skips art, drama and PE? What a joke!

It’s their attempt to make DL “robust.” It just makes our kids suffer more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact remains that the Burgundy teachers should be embarrassed about their behavior. Everyone else is going back to work. Why can’t they?

Except that’s not the facts. Burgundy teachers have been working all summer. They are working right now. They are 100% not at fault here and stating otherwise is speaking from an uninformed perspective. Be mad at administration if you need an outlet but the teachers are absolutely not to blame.

To clarify, most teachers in the area are going back to work in the DL context. Why do people continue to talk about this like teachers aren’t working?

For K-8 Teaching cannot be done effectively online. “Going back to work In the DL context” is not going back to work.

I don’t think in-person learning would/will look anything like we think it would either.

Teachers want to be in the classroom. If they didn’t, they would make much more money by quitting and tutoring online (pandemic or no pandemic). Teachers understand that NEITHER model is ideal but only one protects at risk people and makes sense right now.

I believe teachers are making a good faith effort to reopen. Given the way their planning for the fall was stymied, they have really great ideas about a slow re-opening that ensures kids’ learning as well as social-emotional needs are protected as much as possible. Talk to the teachers and you will hear this message loud and clear.

I know this has been said but it bears repeating - DL is not a result of teachers being lazy. It’s a result of a global pandemic. Also, kids are capable of so much more than we give them credit for. Just like the first few weeks of school are a time of tremendous transition and routine learning, the first few weeks of DL have to be that too. Give our kids the space to grow into this model and ask teachers how you can best support your kids at home. It doesn’t/shouldn’t look like kids at a desk for hours. Teachers don’t want that either, especially at Burgundy.

Respectfully... this sounds nice and rosy, but is obviously coming from someone who didn't try to manage DL with a young child in the spring while also working full-time. My young child lost interest in Zoom pretty quickly in the spring, despite the awesome teachers. As an educator, you know very well that DL is not appropriate for 5, 6 and 7 year olds.

And what about the impact on parents who have jobs to do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact remains that the Burgundy teachers should be embarrassed about their behavior. Everyone else is going back to work. Why can’t they?

Except that’s not the facts. Burgundy teachers have been working all summer. They are working right now. They are 100% not at fault here and stating otherwise is speaking from an uninformed perspective. Be mad at administration if you need an outlet but the teachers are absolutely not to blame.

To clarify, most teachers in the area are going back to work in the DL context. Why do people continue to talk about this like teachers aren’t working?

For K-8 Teaching cannot be done effectively online. “Going back to work In the DL context” is not going back to work.

I don’t think in-person learning would/will look anything like we think it would either.

Teachers want to be in the classroom. If they didn’t, they would make much more money by quitting and tutoring online (pandemic or no pandemic). Teachers understand that NEITHER model is ideal but only one protects at risk people and makes sense right now.

I believe teachers are making a good faith effort to reopen. Given the way their planning for the fall was stymied, they have really great ideas about a slow re-opening that ensures kids’ learning as well as social-emotional needs are protected as much as possible. Talk to the teachers and you will hear this message loud and clear.

I know this has been said but it bears repeating - DL is not a result of teachers being lazy. It’s a result of a global pandemic. Also, kids are capable of so much more than we give them credit for. Just like the first few weeks of school are a time of tremendous transition and routine learning, the first few weeks of DL have to be that too. Give our kids the space to grow into this model and ask teachers how you can best support your kids at home. It doesn’t/shouldn’t look like kids at a desk for hours. Teachers don’t want that either, especially at Burgundy.

Respectfully... this sounds nice and rosy, but is obviously coming from someone who didn't try to manage DL with a young child in the spring while also working full-time. My young child lost interest in Zoom pretty quickly in the spring, despite the awesome teachers. As an educator, you know very well that DL is not appropriate for 5, 6 and 7 year olds.

And what about the impact on parents who have jobs to do?

Ask teachers how I can support them while my kids are at home while I am working full time and paying full tuition and have no child care? No thanks. How about the teachers ask the parents who pay tuition how they can support us?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact remains that the Burgundy teachers should be embarrassed about their behavior. Everyone else is going back to work. Why can’t they?

Except that’s not the facts. Burgundy teachers have been working all summer. They are working right now. They are 100% not at fault here and stating otherwise is speaking from an uninformed perspective. Be mad at administration if you need an outlet but the teachers are absolutely not to blame.

To clarify, most teachers in the area are going back to work in the DL context. Why do people continue to talk about this like teachers aren’t working?

For K-8 Teaching cannot be done effectively online. “Going back to work In the DL context” is not going back to work.

I don’t think in-person learning would/will look anything like we think it would either.

Teachers want to be in the classroom. If they didn’t, they would make much more money by quitting and tutoring online (pandemic or no pandemic). Teachers understand that NEITHER model is ideal but only one protects at risk people and makes sense right now.

I believe teachers are making a good faith effort to reopen. Given the way their planning for the fall was stymied, they have really great ideas about a slow re-opening that ensures kids’ learning as well as social-emotional needs are protected as much as possible. Talk to the teachers and you will hear this message loud and clear.

I know this has been said but it bears repeating - DL is not a result of teachers being lazy. It’s a result of a global pandemic. Also, kids are capable of so much more than we give them credit for. Just like the first few weeks of school are a time of tremendous transition and routine learning, the first few weeks of DL have to be that too. Give our kids the space to grow into this model and ask teachers how you can best support your kids at home. It doesn’t/shouldn’t look like kids at a desk for hours. Teachers don’t want that either, especially at Burgundy.

Why on earth is Burgundy requiring kids to log into online Zoom PE classes? More mandatory screen time from a school that claims it wants kids outside!! Let us send our kids outside to exercise rather than sit in front of screen.

If the school wanted our kids outside they’d be teaching in all the outdoor classrooms they brag about on their website instead of doing “robust DL”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Burgundy’s mandatory GRADED online specials is the stupidest thing they have Come up with yet. Will they kick us out if my kid just skips art, drama and PE? What a joke!

It’s their attempt to make DL “robust.” It just makes our kids suffer more.

+100 I don’t know of any other school REQUIRING and GRADING online PE, Art, drama, etc. Does Burgundy understand that the kids do not need hours of non-academic classes? Please give us the academic core classes daily, but stop requiring and grading additional hours online in front of a screen. We can handle the art and PE at home for our middle school kid. This approach is the complete opposite of progressive education model.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact remains that the Burgundy teachers should be embarrassed about their behavior. Everyone else is going back to work. Why can’t they?

Except that’s not the facts. Burgundy teachers have been working all summer. They are working right now. They are 100% not at fault here and stating otherwise is speaking from an uninformed perspective. Be mad at administration if you need an outlet but the teachers are absolutely not to blame.

To clarify, most teachers in the area are going back to work in the DL context. Why do people continue to talk about this like teachers aren’t working?

For K-8 Teaching cannot be done effectively online. “Going back to work In the DL context” is not going back to work.

I don’t think in-person learning would/will look anything like we think it would either.

Teachers want to be in the classroom. If they didn’t, they would make much more money by quitting and tutoring online (pandemic or no pandemic). Teachers understand that NEITHER model is ideal but only one protects at risk people and makes sense right now.

I believe teachers are making a good faith effort to reopen. Given the way their planning for the fall was stymied, they have really great ideas about a slow re-opening that ensures kids’ learning as well as social-emotional needs are protected as much as possible. Talk to the teachers and you will hear this message loud and clear.

I know this has been said but it bears repeating - DL is not a result of teachers being lazy. It’s a result of a global pandemic. Also, kids are capable of so much more than we give them credit for. Just like the first few weeks of school are a time of tremendous transition and routine learning, the first few weeks of DL have to be that too. Give our kids the space to grow into this model and ask teachers how you can best support your kids at home. It doesn’t/shouldn’t look like kids at a desk for hours. Teachers don’t want that either, especially at Burgundy.

Respectfully... this sounds nice and rosy, but is obviously coming from someone who didn't try to manage DL with a young child in the spring while also working full-time. My young child lost interest in Zoom pretty quickly in the spring, despite the awesome teachers. As an educator, you know very well that DL is not appropriate for 5, 6 and 7 year olds.

And what about the impact on parents who have jobs to do?

Ask teachers how I can support them while my kids are at home while I am working full time and paying full tuition and have no child care? No thanks. How about the teachers ask the parents who pay tuition how they can support us?

Of course this is hard for everyone involved. Teachers want to support us. I see this as trying to make the best of this situation rather than focusing on the negative aspects. This is rough - no getting around it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Burgundy’s mandatory GRADED online specials is the stupidest thing they have Come up with yet. Will they kick us out if my kid just skips art, drama and PE? What a joke!

It’s their attempt to make DL “robust.” It just makes our kids suffer more.

+100 I don’t know of any other school REQUIRING and GRADING online PE, Art, drama, etc. Does Burgundy understand that the kids do not need hours of non-academic classes? Please give us the academic core classes daily, but stop requiring and grading additional hours online in front of a screen. We can handle the art and PE at home for our middle school kid. This approach is the complete opposite of progressive education model.

I disagree. Asynchronous specials in the spring were a disaster. I spent all day except maybe 2 hours trying to occupy my kids while working by finding stuff for them to do at home. Synchronous specials are preferable I guess for that reason. But now our kids will be on Zoom all day. Disastrous. This is why distance learning is not an acceptable alternative for k-8!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact remains that the Burgundy teachers should be embarrassed about their behavior. Everyone else is going back to work. Why can’t they?

Except that’s not the facts. Burgundy teachers have been working all summer. They are working right now. They are 100% not at fault here and stating otherwise is speaking from an uninformed perspective. Be mad at administration if you need an outlet but the teachers are absolutely not to blame.

To clarify, most teachers in the area are going back to work in the DL context. Why do people continue to talk about this like teachers aren’t working?

For K-8 Teaching cannot be done effectively online. “Going back to work In the DL context” is not going back to work.

I don’t think in-person learning would/will look anything like we think it would either.

Teachers want to be in the classroom. If they didn’t, they would make much more money by quitting and tutoring online (pandemic or no pandemic). Teachers understand that NEITHER model is ideal but only one protects at risk people and makes sense right now.

I believe teachers are making a good faith effort to reopen. Given the way their planning for the fall was stymied, they have really great ideas about a slow re-opening that ensures kids’ learning as well as social-emotional needs are protected as much as possible. Talk to the teachers and you will hear this message loud and clear.

I know this has been said but it bears repeating - DL is not a result of teachers being lazy. It’s a result of a global pandemic. Also, kids are capable of so much more than we give them credit for. Just like the first few weeks of school are a time of tremendous transition and routine learning, the first few weeks of DL have to be that too. Give our kids the space to grow into this model and ask teachers how you can best support your kids at home. It doesn’t/shouldn’t look like kids at a desk for hours. Teachers don’t want that either, especially at Burgundy.

Respectfully... this sounds nice and rosy, but is obviously coming from someone who didn't try to manage DL with a young child in the spring while also working full-time. My young child lost interest in Zoom pretty quickly in the spring, despite the awesome teachers. As an educator, you know very well that DL is not appropriate for 5, 6 and 7 year olds.

And what about the impact on parents who have jobs to do?

Ask teachers how I can support them while my kids are at home while I am working full time and paying full tuition and have no child care? No thanks. How about the teachers ask the parents who pay tuition how they can support us?

Of course this is hard for everyone involved. Teachers want to support us. I see this as trying to make the best of this situation rather than focusing on the negative aspects. This is rough - no getting around it.

We need to push the school to make a change, not just roll over and accept mediocrity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact remains that the Burgundy teachers should be embarrassed about their behavior. Everyone else is going back to work. Why can’t they?

Except that’s not the facts. Burgundy teachers have been working all summer. They are working right now. They are 100% not at fault here and stating otherwise is speaking from an uninformed perspective. Be mad at administration if you need an outlet but the teachers are absolutely not to blame.

To clarify, most teachers in the area are going back to work in the DL context. Why do people continue to talk about this like teachers aren’t working?

For K-8 Teaching cannot be done effectively online. “Going back to work In the DL context” is not going back to work.

I don’t think in-person learning would/will look anything like we think it would either.

Teachers want to be in the classroom. If they didn’t, they would make much more money by quitting and tutoring online (pandemic or no pandemic). Teachers understand that NEITHER model is ideal but only one protects at risk people and makes sense right now.

I believe teachers are making a good faith effort to reopen. Given the way their planning for the fall was stymied, they have really great ideas about a slow re-opening that ensures kids’ learning as well as social-emotional needs are protected as much as possible. Talk to the teachers and you will hear this message loud and clear.

I know this has been said but it bears repeating - DL is not a result of teachers being lazy. It’s a result of a global pandemic. Also, kids are capable of so much more than we give them credit for. Just like the first few weeks of school are a time of tremendous transition and routine learning, the first few weeks of DL have to be that too. Give our kids the space to grow into this model and ask teachers how you can best support your kids at home. It doesn’t/shouldn’t look like kids at a desk for hours. Teachers don’t want that either, especially at Burgundy.

Respectfully... this sounds nice and rosy, but is obviously coming from someone who didn't try to manage DL with a young child in the spring while also working full-time. My young child lost interest in Zoom pretty quickly in the spring, despite the awesome teachers. As an educator, you know very well that DL is not appropriate for 5, 6 and 7 year olds.

And what about the impact on parents who have jobs to do?

Ask teachers how I can support them while my kids are at home while I am working full time and paying full tuition and have no child care? No thanks. How about the teachers ask the parents who pay tuition how they can support us?

Of course this is hard for everyone involved. Teachers want to support us. I see this as trying to make the best of this situation rather than focusing on the negative aspects. This is rough - no getting around it.

How do you know teachers want to support us? Please name one fact to support
This claim. How have parents been supported at all since this announcement of +?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact remains that the Burgundy teachers should be embarrassed about their behavior. Everyone else is going back to work. Why can’t they?

Except that’s not the facts. Burgundy teachers have been working all summer. They are working right now. They are 100% not at fault here and stating otherwise is speaking from an uninformed perspective. Be mad at administration if you need an outlet but the teachers are absolutely not to blame.

To clarify, most teachers in the area are going back to work in the DL context. Why do people continue to talk about this like teachers aren’t working?

For K-8 Teaching cannot be done effectively online. “Going back to work In the DL context” is not going back to work.

I don’t think in-person learning would/will look anything like we think it would either.

Teachers want to be in the classroom. If they didn’t, they would make much more money by quitting and tutoring online (pandemic or no pandemic). Teachers understand that NEITHER model is ideal but only one protects at risk people and makes sense right now.

I believe teachers are making a good faith effort to reopen. Given the way their planning for the fall was stymied, they have really great ideas about a slow re-opening that ensures kids’ learning as well as social-emotional needs are protected as much as possible. Talk to the teachers and you will hear this message loud and clear.

I know this has been said but it bears repeating - DL is not a result of teachers being lazy. It’s a result of a global pandemic. Also, kids are capable of so much more than we give them credit for. Just like the first few weeks of school are a time of tremendous transition and routine learning, the first few weeks of DL have to be that too. Give our kids the space to grow into this model and ask teachers how you can best support your kids at home. It doesn’t/shouldn’t look like kids at a desk for hours. Teachers don’t want that either, especially at Burgundy.

Respectfully... this sounds nice and rosy, but is obviously coming from someone who didn't try to manage DL with a young child in the spring while also working full-time. My young child lost interest in Zoom pretty quickly in the spring, despite the awesome teachers. As an educator, you know very well that DL is not appropriate for 5, 6 and 7 year olds.

And what about the impact on parents who have jobs to do?

Ask teachers how I can support them while my kids are at home while I am working full time and paying full tuition and have no child care? No thanks. How about the teachers ask the parents who pay tuition how they can support us?

Of course this is hard for everyone involved. Teachers want to support us. I see this as trying to make the best of this situation rather than focusing on the negative aspects. This is rough - no getting around it.

So that’s your solution? That’s not acceptable